# Do Moderators get paid? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 6, 2001, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869 "2001-03-06T00:08:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaz)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/1 "2001-03-06T00:08:52Z")
Or is it just voulenter work? Cause it would be kinda cool to do, but I don’t know if I’d do it jsut for fun, it’s a lotta work, right? ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/2 "2001-03-06T00:17:40Z")
They’re volunteers with cool SD coffee mugs. 🙂 And yup, it’s a lot of work. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/3 "2001-03-06T00:52:29Z")
All that we get for this is a SD Staff coffee mug and the undying thanks of a grateful nation. Oh … and an occassional blow job. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/4 "2001-03-06T01:30:22Z")
A grateful _planet_, Euty. 😉 [sub]I do get paid. Just don’t tell the others that, OK? They’re so happy with their mugs and all.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/5 "2001-03-06T01:56:22Z")
Don’t believe what the Mods tell you. I’ve snuck inside Coldfire’s basement. There’s a secret door behind in the clothes dryer (don’t climb in if it’s on.) Behind that, a vault door. Past that is an underground cavern leading to a huge square underground money-bin. I managed to get to the front door without triggering any of the land mines. I picked the lock and snuck inside. There, to my horror, I found that almost all of the interior was _one, single, huge room_, filled with every conceivable coin, from copper pennies to kruggerands, from pfennings to fifty cent pieces. Gold dubloons, and, in a bell-jar, under shatterproof glass, resting on a bed of ermine, was Coldfire’s number one dime. The very first he was every earned from Cecil. Suddenly I heard a noise in the money-bin. I peeked in. There was Coldfire, completely naked _swimming around in three cubic acres of cash!_ He was muttering something about how he “loves to dive around in it like a porpoise, burrow through it like a gopher and toss it up and let it hit [him] on the head!” And of all the mods, he gets the _lowest_ salary! Imagine what someone with _real_ power like Lynn or Tuba or Dex gets paid! :eek: Fenris ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/6 "2001-03-06T18:01:01Z")
Uh oh. Coldy, I think Fenris is on to ya. It appears he’s discovered that in real life you’re Scrooge McDuck. And the Admins are really Huey, Louie and Dewey. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/7 "2001-03-06T19:56:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*Uh oh. Coldy, I think Fenris is on to ya. It appears he’s discovered that in real life you’re Scrooge McDuck. And the Admins are really Huey, Louie and Dewey. \*\* Hmmm…Then I suppose that I’m Flintheart Glomgold, Veb is Magicka DeSpell…but then who would you be? Donald? Gyro? A Beagle Boy (176-671?), or… of course! Gladstone? Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Kaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaz)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/8 "2001-03-07T00:14:23Z")
How does one become a moderator? I remember when I firs joined the boards, **Coldfire** was not a mod, then I took a small hiatus, and when I came back, he was a mod. How does this happen? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2001, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/9 "2001-03-07T00:39:54Z")
I think Coldy blackmailed Ed Zotti to get the position. The rumor I heard was that it involved Ed with two ostriches, an iguana and a jar of marmalade. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2001, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/10 "2001-03-07T00:46:29Z")
Heh. No, they blackmailed _me_ into taking this gig. 😉 Incidently, [here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=39803) some background info on how to become a moderator. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2001, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/11 "2001-03-07T00:56:57Z")
Seriously, what you do is to e-mail [tubadiva@aol.com](mailto:tubadiva@aol.com) to apply. Some of the criteria, as I understand, are that you need to have been around the boards for a fair amount of time (to be familiar with what goes on and how things are done), have the free time to check over a given board on a regular basis, and the desire to be helpful to fellow posters. A fairly mellow disposition is pretty standard as an expectation as well. O mighty Mods? What’d I miss here? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2001, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/12 "2001-03-07T01:14:00Z")
The “fairly mellow disposition” is fuckin’ optional. Otherwise, spot on, you bastard 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/13 "2001-03-07T01:33:24Z")
Hell yea. They come at you with their phat nines and mack you for all your bling-bling. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/14 "2001-03-07T02:06:29Z")
Kat, I believe you’re right, except that it wasn’t marmalade. It was pickle relish; aka the “bling-bling” Biggirl refers too. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2001, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-moderators-get-paid/56869/15 "2001-03-07T06:22:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > \*\* > > Suddenly I heard a noise in the money-bin. I peeked in. There was Coldfire, completely naked _swimming around in three cubic acres of cash!_ > > \*\* Lends new insight into the phrase “money laundering”, doesn’t it? Wash your hands, now. You have no idea where it’s _been_. Veb